Water-closet seat



S. T. FROTHlNGHAM.

WATER CLOSET SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.20, 1919.

' 1,352,058. PatentedSept. 7,1920.

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SAMUEL T. FROTHINGHAM, OF ALLSTON, M

FACTURING COMPANY, OF BQSEUN, CHUSETTS.

AssAci-iUsETTs, ASSACHUSETTS WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. "4', 15. 2

Application filed AugustQO, 1919. Serial I0.-318,635.

To (all til/ mm it may concern Be it known that l, SAMUEL T.- i no'r'i-rnvo HAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Allston, in the county of Suliolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water- Closet Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to we closet seats and more especially to means for securing hinges to the same.

licretoi ore it has been found if. practice that screws and other atta hing' means employed for securing hinges to water closet seats, especially those tori ed of wood covered with celluloid and those made up of layers of fiber, cannot be firmly anchored in the seat and become loosened after a short period of use.

The object of the present invention is to provide a device for anchoring; the hinge attaching means in the seat, and to this end my invention comprises flanged a .hinp; device, such as a tubular interiorly threadei' sleeve which is embedded in the seat and with which the hinge attaching" n'icaus cooperate, as for example by being threaded thereto.

The drawings which accompany and term a part oi this specification illustrate one embodiment of my invention that has prov-en satisfactory in practice, although it will be understood that various modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention.-

In the drawings- Figure 1 is an elevation of a water closet seat embodying my invention. 1 2 is a plan view on an enlarged scale of the underside of the seat and hinge. 3 view of the upper side of said seat and hmx e with a portion of the outermost layer of the material of the seat removed. l ia'. i is a section on the line 4. l of Fig. 2.

In theparticular' drawings selected for more fully disclosing my invention 1 repre sents a water closet seat which may be formed of wood covered with celluloid or layers of fiber 2, 2, 2", secured together in the usual way by cement, or of any other suitable material, my invention, while particularly adaptable to composite seats, being capable of application to seats or" any character.

The hinge 3 is shown as attached to the seat in the present instance by screws 6 which are threaded into the sockets l, the latter being embedded in the material of the seat and provided with rlauges 5 which prei'eu ably abut the outermost layer 2 of fiber.

In the form shown in the drawings the screws are passed through the lateral flanges of the hinge and cooperate with two threaded sockets although it has been found possible in practice to employ but a single socket and to thread the screw 6 which passes through the end of the hinge into the :me. Preterably the layer 2 is countersunk to receive the flanges of the sockets.

It will be obvious that by means of my invention the seat is securely clamped between the hinge and the flanges ot the sockets and that the screws being firmly anchored in the seat but not being threaded into the material thereof, cannot readily become loosened in use.

l'laving thus described an illustrative embodiment of my invention without however limiting myself thereto what I claim and dcsire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a wa er seat formed of layers of material, of a hinge, an interiOrly-threaded sleeve passing through a plurality of said layers, a flange on the inner end of said sleeve, said abutting one of said layers, and a through said hinge and threaded to said sleeve.

2. The combination with a water closet seat formed of layers of material, of a hinge, a sleeve layers, a flange on the inner end oi said sleeve, said flange abutting one of said layers, and fastening means cooiierating with said sleeve and said hinge.

ASSIGNOR TO FIBRE MANU- A CORPORATECON OF MASSA- passing through a plurality of said closet S 0 screw passing In'testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 19th day of August, 

